B&O Announces 'Premium, Powerful, Portable' Beoplay P6 Wireless Speaker

Bang & Olufsen brand subsidiary B&O Play today announced the Beoplay P6, the latest offering in its range of portable wireless speakers.

Designed by Cecilie Manz, the P6 shares a similar aesthetic to the Danish audio company's Beoplay A1 and P2, featuring a dust and splashproof anodized aluminum exterior with square speaker grilles on both sides, and a leather strap looped through one side for carrying.

Across the curved top of the speaker is a strip of Beomaster 6000-inspired integrated flex buttons for controlling volume, playback, Bluetooth, accepting/rejecting calls, and invoking any voice assistant available on the connected device, such as Siri on iPhone. There's also a built-in omnidirectional mic for conference calling.

The Bluetooth speaker weighs 1kg and measures 170 x 130 x 68mm, which makes this a slim unit when you consider it houses a 2600mAh rechargeable battery providing up to 16 hours of playing time at moderate listening levels. Charging time is said to be three hours over USB-C.

The upright design is made to elevate the stereo output from three Class D amplifier channels delivering a total of 215 Watts, while Bang & Olufsen's True360 audio processing promises a uniform radiation of sound from the aluminum chassis.

The Beoplay P6 costs $399/£349 and is available from April 23 in black and natural color options. The speaker comes with a USB-C to USB-A charging cable, while a USB-C to USB-C cable is an optional accessory. See the Beoplay website for more.

Tag: Bang & Olufsen

Top Rated Comments

edvj

104 months ago

Seems like a really nice product.

I’ll bet those buttons on top have a satisfying tactility.

B&O already perfected the use of such buttons 45years ago..so yes they will feel great.

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Apple Knowledge Navigator

104 months ago

Wow... That actually looks like something Apple would design. Certainly more pleasing to the eye and classy than the HomePod.

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hamis92

104 months ago

Yeah... nope. :D That doesn't add up. Must be some kind of hyperbolic marketing factoid. The website lists typical power consumption as 14W.

215 W is the peak power, which it can draw momentarily from the battery should it be necessary. The amplifiers are rated at 36 W + 2 x 30 W. Typically the power consumption is far less than that (as indicated), as music seldom contains signals that truly require everything the system can give.

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hamis92

104 months ago

Where did you find the amp rating? <100W peak is a little more believable. All I'm saying is that from the battery specs, even a momentary 215W draw is physically impossible. A 2600mAh lithium battery can't chemically discharge fast enough to provide that.

The product page doesn't list it which is a bit unusual, but they can be found on the product comparison page (hope that link monster works): https://www.beoplay.com/en/landingpages/speakers/compare/compareresults?compare=%7BC10424C2-C714-43F6-8768-9C8AD41B84F8%7D%7C%7B61B4AFCC-34A6-485A-8E9C-B00FC6FEC23F%7D

Pretty sure there are capacitors to smooth out power usage for these events, so I don't personally see why it wouldn't be possible. And we're talking milliseconds here. I'm happy to be corrected if that's not the case.

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Solomani

104 months ago

$399? No virtual assistant? Obviously they've priced themselves out of the market and will need to release a smaller and lower priced version with Alexa added...heavy sarcasm intended.

$399 is way overpriced for a smart-gadget that does not even have the data-collecting ability for Facebook/Google to send my private info to the FBI and CIA.

What an overpriced thingamabub!

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